Re: SI dares to claim: Serena can be compared with Federer in GOAT discussion

Tennis is literally the only sport where you'd see nonsense like this: No one is going around claiming Mia Hamm can be in the GOAT discussion with Pele and Maradona. No one is going around claiming whatever golf chick is in the GOAT discussion with Nicklaus and Woods. No one is going around claiming whatever basketball chick is in the GOAT discussion with Michael Jordan. Etc. Etc.

Women's sports are women's sports, if you want to call Serena/Graf/Navratilova/Evert/whoever the greatest female tennis player of all time than good for you; but the greatest tennis player of all time will always and forever be a man.

Re: SI dares to claim: Serena can be compared with Federer in GOAT discussion

American magazine hyping American athlete... I'm shocked

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Re: SI dares to claim: Serena can be compared with Federer in GOAT discussion

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Originally Posted by Stefwhit

Honest question for everyone to ponder: if you had to pick one player at their respective peak to face off and play someone on tour for your life or for a loved ones life who would you chose to play that match for you- Serena or Federer? (At the time u have to decide you don't know their opponent or surface, but the players recognize the importance of the match and know the stakes)

So, I am assuming you would pick Serena out, right? And then, if her opponent turns out to be Djokovic, how silly that would have been? And if you think that having Djokovic as the opponent is not fair because Serena does not play in the ATP, so you have to agree that comparing a male player's career to a female's is also very silly...

Re: SI dares to claim: Serena can be compared with Federer in GOAT discussion

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Originally Posted by Topspindoctor

She is only dominant because the best WTA players are useless mugs like Azarenka and Sharapova. Nose has to face Nadal, Djokovic and Murray - players who are not afraid of him and have the movement, defense and stamina to destroy him. Remind me who on WTA is a great mover, defender, has a good attacking game and is not a mental midget? Precisely. Serena is feasting on mugs, just like Nose would be without Nadal/Djoker/Mugray.

Re: SI dares to claim: Serena can be compared with Federer in GOAT discussion

As of right now Federer has the best Open Era resume of the men while Serena is still behind Everett,Nav,Graff.

I don't think its out of the realm of possibility though to suggest that when it's all said and done her hierachy rank in women's tennis could be higher then Federer since she looks like she could still add a few more Slams to her cabinet while Federer's window might be closed and Nadal has a shot to surpass him.

Federer, Nadal and Djokovic pander to plutocrats and charge huge appearance fees. The "trickle down effect" means that tournaments like the Heineken Open now have to pay appearance money for racketeers that many of us have never heard of. It's close to extortion.

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At the end of Federer's first round match at the Australian Open a fawning interviewer asked about his kids and if he had bought coach Stefan Edberg a birthday present - no, by the way, the privilege of knocking up with 'King Roger' was enough of a present apparently.